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TIL in 1977, Ben Cohen was a struggling potter & Jerry Greenfield was getting rejected by medical schools. The pair decided to open a bagel shop, but the cost of bagel machines was too high. As a result, they enrolled in a $5 ice cream making course instead. A year later, they created Ben & Jerry's

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VJ6p TIL Heath Ledger kept a Joker Diary. In it he wrote as the Joker and included a list of things he believed the Joker would find funny including blind babies, geniuses with brain damage, and sombreros
x4Nb TIL Alexander Bell never called his wife or his mother after inventing the telephone because they were both deaf
X66R TIL The Spirit Bear survived, in part, because the Native Americans never spoke of them to fur trappers.
nWnyB TIL of the 9th century poet al-Khubzârruzi "the rice-bread baker". He could nor read nor write, customers would come to his bakery to hear him recite his poems.
8aD8 TIL that once Truman left the presidency, his only income was his old army pension - $112.56 per month. “I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency.”